Wilbur Newton Burns

1879 - 1956  (76 years)

• Name	Wilbur Newton Burns  [1, 2]
  Birth	18 Nov 1879	Pekin, Niagara, New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Feb 1956	Flint, Genesee, Michigan   [2, 3]
  Burial	Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles, Berrien, Michigan   [2]
  Person ID	I156705	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

  Father	Newton Burns,   b. 18 Jul 1853, Pekin, Niagara, New York d. 11 Apr 1934, Alma, Gratiot, Michigan (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Mary Priscella Maxon,   b. 5 Oct 1851, ..., Niagara, New York d. 18 Mar 1934, Alma, Gratiot, Michigan (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F63657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Grace Selina Bartrem,   b. 3 Apr 1881, Breckenridge, Gratiot, Michigan d. 14 Jun 1951, Niles, Berrien, Michigan (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1904  [4]
  Children	1. Robert Bartram Burns,   b. 28 Jun 1907, Michigan d. 18 Apr 1927, Danville, Boyle, Kentucky (Age 19 years)   2. Mary S. Burns,   b. 29 Jul 1908, Michigan d. 30 Mar 1996, East Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F63658	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  News Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan February 17, 1956 Niles, February 17--Wilbur N. Burns, 76, leading attorney in Niles and throughout Michigan, died this morning at 7 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edwin P. Vary in Flint, Michigan. Attorney Burns had been in semi-retirement since September, 1955, following the removal of a cancerous lung. He went to Flint to be under the immediate care of his son-in-law, a well known physician and surgeon in the eastern part of the state. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church of which he was a former elder. Attorney Burns was president of the State Bar of Michigan for the 1945-46 term. He played a leading role in the formation of this legal unit which took over the old Michigan State Bar association, a voluntary organization. Raising the ethical standards of the profession was a lifelong avocation for Mr. Burns. He served as president of the Berrien County Bar association in the 1938-39 term. Mr. Burns opened his office in Niles in 1902 upon his graduation from the University of Michigan law school. Success for this former school teacher in his new work was immediate, and in a few years, his name became recognized in Michigan legal circles. He had two Partners in the early days of his practice, an Attorney Sweet and Arthur Hillman, both deceased. In 1919 he and Phillip A. Hadsell, Sr., now a circuit judge for Berrien County, formed a partnership until Judge Hadsell went on the bench in 1954. In 1951 the firm became Burns, Hadsell and Mollison, through inclusion of Attorney Andrew A. Mollison, who came here in 1945. Judge Hadsell's son, Phillip, Jr., replaced his father in the partnership two years ago. Mr. Burns was born in Pekin, N.Y., Nov. 18,1879. His parents moved to a farm near St. Louis, Michigan eight years later. After graduating from high school and a short teacher's course, he taught in a county school near St. Louis several years before attending law school. Mrs. Burns, the former Grace Bartrem, died June 14, 1951. A son, Robert, died in 1927. Survivors in addition to Attorney Burns daughter, Mrs. Vary, include two sisters, Mrs. Clare Rogers of Sherman Oaks, California, and Mrs. M. E. Moore of Alma Michigan and four grandchildren.

  
  

• Sources

  [S37776] Obituary, Niles Daily Star, Newton Burns, (March 12. 1934). [S10893] Cemetery index, Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles, Berrien, Michigan, (Find-a-Grave). [S37749] Obituary, News Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan, Wilbur N. Burns, (February 17, 1956). [S20311] 1910 census, Michigan, Berrien county.